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Dec 4, 2016 · This playlist includes all Dominic Copeland scenes chronologically from his first appearance.
Mar 23, 2022 · David has played Dominic Copeland for 9 years (Picture: BBC) As Holby City heads towards its final episode (no matter how many times we write that it will always seem unreal and wrong), David Ames ...
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Dominic Joseph Copeland (born Darren Godard; 26 March 1987) is a consultant general surgeon who currently works on Holby City Hospital's Keller Ward as Clinical Lead.
Early life
During Dominic's childhood, he was taunted and bullied for his homosexuality, and his first name "Darren" was often abbreviated and incorporated into homophobic nicknames; (HC: "Cold Heart, Warm Hands") escaping the stigma of being "the gay boy that everyone [laughed] at" was one of his main reasons for attending medical school. (HC: "Green Ink") At some point, he changed his first name to Dominic. (HC: "Cold Heart, Warm Hands")
Malick and Amanda Layton's death
On 23 April 2013, Dominic attended his induction on Holby City Hospital's Keller Ward as an F1. That evening, at Albie's, he introduced himself to registrar and clinical skills tutor Antoine Malick and expressed his excitement about working with him the next day. (HC: "Second Life") The following day, consultant Serena Campbell tasked Malick with mentoring Dominic to help improve the former's chances of becoming a consultant when a position became available. After assisting Malick and Michael Spence with an ileocecal resection, Dominic was eager to learn more from Malick. (HC: "Time Has Told Me") On 7 May, Amanda Layton — the girlfriend of serial killer Thomas Sandwell — was brought onto Keller with stab wounds inflicted by her fellow inmates. When Malick berated Amanda for attempting to remove her surgical wound's vacuum seal, Dominic tried to reel him in and assured him that he empathised, but Malick snapped at him. Later, Amanda went into cardiac arrest, but Malick and Dominic were unsure about resuscitating her due to the ambiguity of her advance directive; Malick ultimately decided to approach her case as an attempted suicide and resuscitated Amanda. (HC: "Only Human") The next day, Malick asked Dominic to help him by bringing Susannah Harris — the mother of Simone Harris, one of Thomas and Amanda's victims — to a secluded area of the hospital so she could speak to Amanda. After Amanda agreed to disclose the location of Simone's body in exchange for Malick respecting her advance directive, Malick ordered Dominic and nurse Chantelle Lane to withhold resuscitation when she went into ventricular fibrillation and allow her to die. Later that night, Malick thanked Dominic for his support, and the two shared a kiss. (HC: "The More Deceived") However, Malick told Dominic that their night together was merely a one-night stand, and he had reconciled with his boyfriend Nathan. Bitter, Dominic began undermining Malick. When the police began questioning Keller's staff in the wake of Amanda's death, Malick offered Dominic advice on what to say to the police and invited him out for a drink. However, when Malick admitted that he cancelled a psychiatric consult for Amanda, Dominic felt that Malick was attempting to cover his own tracks and informed CEO Henrik Hanssen of Malick's actions, leading to his suspension. (HC: "Back from the Dead") On 4 June, Dominic attended Malick's hearing at the coroner's court. During an adjournment, Dominic apologised to Malick and admitted that he was hurt and confused by Malick's coldness after their encounter; when Malick pinned Dominic against a wall, Dominic protested that he would do anything for him. In the witness box, Dominic claimed that he called the psych team at Malick's request but also caught him altering the flow of Amanda's listronate drip, resulting in an overdose that resulted in her rapid deterioration. However, after Arthur Digby pointed out that Dominic's descriptions were asymptomatic of a listronate overdose, the coroner decided to report Dominic to the General Medical Council for misleading the jury. Malick accepted responsibility for Dominic's decision to lie and publicly admitted that they had been in an intimate relationship. (HC: "Home")
Return and rivalry with Arthur
Following the inquest, Dominic attended a professional hearing, and his case was later settled. Although he was allowed to return to Holby City Hospital, he was forced to repeat his first year. On 14 January 2014, Dominic returned to work on Keller again, much to Arthur's disdain. Arthur confronted Dominic about his vendetta against Malick, but Dominic argued that Malick abused his position by seducing him, and the situation had left him a "pariah". Fellow F1 Zosia March soon took issue with Arthur's passive-aggressive attitude towards Dominic when he scared a patient that she and Dominic had worked to gain the trust of. That evening, Arthur was aggrieved to learn that Zosia had invited Dominic to move into their flat. (HC: "Intuition") The following week, after attending a meeting with clinical skills tutor Sacha Levy about his progress, Dominic was allowed to take the lead in treating Grace Staincliffe; when Arthur voiced his concerns, Sacha suggested that he and Dominic treat Grace together. However, after Arthur continued to antagonise Dominic, Dominic discarded the test results Arthur had ordered for Grace. A gastroscopy provided no clues as to what condition Grace was suffering from, so Dominic suggested that he and Arthur put their differences aside to properly diagnose her; Grace overheard Arthur brushing Dominic off and reported him to Sacha. Believing that Dominic had grassed on him, Arthur angrily confronted him on the ward, prompting Sacha to reprimand Arthur. After Dominic admitted his past mistakes, Arthur allowed him to help him brainstorm a diagnosis for Grace, and they eventually concluded that she was suffering from an aortoduodenal fistula. (HC: "Life after Life") On 4 February, Dominic and Arthur treated a firefighter named Danny who was involved in an incident at a plastics factory. Dominic managed to impress Sacha by suggesting Danny had cyanide poisoning, but Arthur soon discovered that Zosia was responsible for the diagnosis. When Danny began to develop new symptoms and deteriorate further, Dominic suggested consulting Sacha, but Arthur was confident in his clinical decisions and even disregarded Sacha's input. Ultimately, Danny required immediate surgical intervention, and they discovered that Danny was suffering from Crohn's disease and now required a stoma. When questioned by Sacha, Dominic told him about Arthur's reluctance to consult him. (HC: "Things We Lost in the Fire") On 4 March, after Dominic arrived at work late, Sacha warned him that he was "on very thin ice" with CEO Guy Self and decided to assess Dominic by having him treat a man named Christopher who had smuggled his pet kitten onto the ward. Sacha was unimpressed by Dominic's substandard cannulation skills, and he ended up tripping over Christopher's cannula that had become detached. When Christopher accused Dominic of stabbing him with a needle and made an official complaint, Dominic was suspended. Initially dumbfounded by Christopher's psychological problems, Dominic later realised that Christopher had contracted toxoplasmosis from his kitten and impressed Guy with his diagnostic skills. After Dominic recounted a sinister story to Arthur about his pet hamster cannibalising his brother's, (HC: "Instinct") Arthur began to believe Dominic was a sociopath. While treating a diabetic patient named Tessa, Arthur stopped Dominic from cannulating her and continued to brand him as incompetent. When Dominic told Tessa's partner Des — against her wishes — that she had undergone a kidney transplant, Arthur accused Dominic of purposefully breaching patient confidentiality to spite him and ordered him to stay away from his patients. Later, Arthur called Dominic a "liability" after Les decided to leave Tessa following a conversation with him and suggested that he stabbed Christopher Bing on purpose. After a dressing-down from Zosia, Arthur followed Dominic to the basement and tried to apologise to him, but Dominic claimed that he did not think he could forget Arthur's words and began alluding to committing suicide. Arthur tried to talk him out of it, but Dominic explained that he needed to be seen as "something special" and told Arthur that he would forgive him once he stopped taking his frustration out on him at work. Arthur cautiously agreed to stop antagonising Dominic, and Dominic thanked him for admitting that he was in the wrong. (HC: "Green Ink") On 8 April, after another feud with Arthur, Dominic confided in Sacha and explained that he had been second-guessing himself since Arthur asserted that he would never make it as a doctor; Sacha assured him that he was exactly where he was supposed to be and urged him not to compare himself to others. When a patient named Carl was brought onto the ward with an abscess, Dominic volunteered to take his case, pleasing Sacha. When Carl began to develop pneumonia and refused to give Dominic many details about his condition, Sacha encouraged Dominic to use a less clinical approach. Despite Carl's initial reluctance, Dominic got Carl to give his father's name, and Carl explained that his mother Ginny drowned while rescuing him from a pond. After Carl went into shock, Dominic realised that his abscess was caused by scabies and managed to contain it, but he was forced to break his promise to Carl and gave Sacha the name of his father. However, despite Carl's insistence that his father hated him, he was relieved and decided to bring Carl home. Despite Dominic's good clinical work, he later offended Zosia when he suggested that she could be "off her game because she [could] play the dead mum card". At Albie's, he apologised to Zosia and explained the reasons for his remark, but he merely appropriated Carl's account of his mother's death. (HC: "The Win") The following week, one of Dominic's old classmates Kevin Cart was admitted to Keller with an inguinal hernia. Dominic threatened to tell Sacha about their history if Kevin told anyone that they knew each other. After telling Zosia that Kevin bullied him, she warned Dominic that she would tell Sacha if they did not discharge Kevin together, but Zosia soon found lumps and blood oozing out of one of his nipples. Despite Dominic's insistence on having Kevin discharged, Zosia voiced her concerns to Sacha, but Sacha berated both of them for continuing to bicker. While treating Kevin, Arthur was confused to learn that Kevin still regularly saw Dominic's mother Carole working at his local supermarket and claimed that Dominic's family never owned a dog. Arthur told Zosia about Dominic's spurious claims, and they quickly discovered that Carole was still alive. They confronted Dominic about his lies, and he explained that he wanted to make himself seem more interesting. Dominic later apologised to Arthur and Zosia and promise to never lie to them again; Zosia claimed to find Dominic "fascinating" and agreed to join him at Albie's. (HC: "Cold Heart, Warm Hands") On 6 May, Dominic was forced to assist Harry Tressler on AAU and quickly took issue with his playful attitude. While treating a woman going by the name "Stephanie" who had a prosthetic heart valve, Dominic questioned some of Harry's clinical decisions, including prescribing heparin, and decided to order an ECG. The results showed that the woman did not have a prosthetic valve, and the heparin would have exacerbated an existing bleed, but consultant Serena Campbell was unimpressed that he failed to deduce the situation through observation and suggested that he was attempting to score brownie points. Dominic soon found the woman attempting to leave the hospital, and she broke his nose. After managing to bring the woman back onto the ward, thus saving her life, Dominic managed to earn Serena's respect. (HC: "My Name Is Joe")
•Dominic does not see the point of having a pet. He hates cats (HC: "Instinct") and is allergic to dogs. (HC: "Cold Heart, Warm Hands")
David Ames portrayed Dominic in Holby City from April 2013 to the show's conclusion in March 2022.
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Junior doctors
Discussion with one of the volunteers to replace the retiring Ward 6 City Councilor about where the city is; where it's going and where it should be going.
Jun 28, 2021 · It’s been a turbulent few months for Dominic Copeland and he runs into further problems in Monday night’s Holby City. After the turmoil of recent months, Dom is focused on moving forward as he settles into his new role as clinical lead on Keller. And he’s not the only one moving on, as he learns ex-husband Lofty is getting married!
David Ames appears as Dominic Copeland, a registrar on the general surgery ward, Keller. Bob Barrett portrays the ward's clinical lead, Sacha Levy , a consultant general surgeon. [92] Trieve Blackwood-Cambridge stars as Josh Hudson , a first year foundation doctor (F1) working on the Acute Assessment Unit (AAU), and Tyler Luke Cunningham ...
